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martyb
on Wednesday November 01 2017, @11:58AM
from the American-game-of-FOOTball-which-is-played-using-your-HANDs dept.
from the American-game-of-FOOTball-which-is-played-using-your-HANDs dept.
ESPN pays $2 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football and one NFL wild card playoff game. I've written for the past couple of years that as ESPN's business collapses that ESPN's decision on whether or not to bid to keep Monday Night Football would be the first big test of how rapidly that business is deteriorating.
What's a deteriorating business look like? In the month of October ESPN lost over 15,000 subscribers a day in October per the latest Nielson estimates.
15,000 a day!
Losing 15,000 subscribers per day is a lot, but is that because of the NFL anthem protests or because cord-cutting has finally reached a tipping point?
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ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by schad on Wednesday November 01 2017, @01:41PM
What are you talking about? Hockey's US viewership can best be described as -- with apologies to SNL -- stable after being declared dead in 2005. It's very much a regional thing now, and nothing at all like the NFL, MLB, and NBA. Are the playoff games even nationally televised any more? In most of the country, Premier League soccer is a bigger deal than hockey.
As far as golf goes: Tiger Woods [espn.com]. Plenty of things you can say about golf and racism, but "non-white golfers make whites stop watching" is not one of them.